| Author | Message | ||
| glocke
Senior Member Username: glocke Post Number: 434 Registered: 9-2002 |
at last http://dead.net/features/release-info/rocking-cradle-grateful-dead-egypt-1978 | ||
| pace
Advanced Member Username: pace Post Number: 377 Registered: 4-2004 |
I never thought that the audio content of these shows ever stood out from the crowd on their own..... I guess you had to have been there. | ||
| glocke
Senior Member Username: glocke Post Number: 435 Registered: 9-2002 |
I always thought the same, but a few weeks back I heard some of these shows in the Sirius GD channel, and it actually sounded pretty good.... | ||
| hieronymous
Advanced Member Username: hieronymous Post Number: 393 Registered: 1-2005 |
I already pre-ordered mine, looking forward to hearing it for the first time! | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 1898 Registered: 10-2002 |
Pre-ordered my copy too. Graeme | ||
| hieronymous
Senior Member Username: hieronymous Post Number: 433 Registered: 1-2005 |
Got my copy in the mail yesterday! Cool packaging, so far I've only listened to the bonus disk which has some great stuff. Oh, watched bits of the DVD too. | ||
| glocke
Senior Member Username: glocke Post Number: 463 Registered: 9-2002 |
Did you ask for express shipping? Phil and Bobby are going to be at the Best Buy in Manhattan signing these on 10/14. | ||
| darkstar01
Intermediate Member Username: darkstar01 Post Number: 126 Registered: 6-2005 |
i just heard Bobby apparently broke his ribs on the tour bus. Seems he's okay, but I'm wondering if the thing in NYC is still happening. | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 3291 Registered: 7-2004 |
Thanks for reviving this thread. I'd forgotten all about the Egypt shows being released. Went to the site and ordered the special package that includes the Egypt set, the Winterland shows following the Egypt tour (GREAT shows - I was there), and a T-shirt. "They're not the best at what they do, they're the only ones that do what they do" Bill, tgo | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 1934 Registered: 10-2002 |
I'm still waiting for my copy. Apparently it was shipped on the 25th. Hopefully they didn't really use a ship ;-) Graeme | ||
| pas
Intermediate Member Username: pas Post Number: 130 Registered: 3-2003 |
If I'm not mistaken, a few of the tracks - "Ollin Arageed", "Minglewood Blues", "Fire on the Mountain" and "Stagger Lee" - from Egypt are included as bonus material on Shakedown Street. I have to say I thought those versions were rather languid...not a lot of energy. Of course, this was near the end of Keith & Donna's run with the Dead. Has anyone downloaded the 2 Philly shows from November '79? The set lists looked great to me & this was Brent's first year in the band...a very positive thing from my perspective. However I've heard that there were some pitch issues with the download. Any info would be much appreciated. | ||
| glocke
Senior Member Username: glocke Post Number: 464 Registered: 9-2002 |
"Posted on Thursday, October 02, 2008 - 12:45 am: I'm still waiting for my copy. Apparently it was shipped on the 25th. Hopefully they didn't really use a ship ;-) Graeme" If they did I hope it wasnt a ship of fools... | ||
| pace
Advanced Member Username: pace Post Number: 379 Registered: 4-2004 |
Pas, those Spectrum shows are great. Im not sure what source is online anymore, though. Also check out the Cape Cod show from that run if you haven't already! | ||
| kmh364
Senior Member Username: kmh364 Post Number: 2252 Registered: 9-2003 |
The Egypt '78 stuff, as well as the Warfield "Road Trips" from one month later, is decent. The T-shirt (which I also bought) is misspelled. I work with people fluent in Arabic, and the word for "crew" is misspelled into a nonsense word with no meaning. Not a big deal, unless you have Arabic-speaking people reading it and looking at you like you're an illiterate moron, LOL' FWIW, my first Dead show was on that '79 tour when Brent was new (Nassau Colisseum, Nov. 2). I had friends at the two Nov 5/6 Philly shows from the Road Trips Fall '79/Nov. 5/6 Downloads who bragged about them. It was a decent tour, especially if you're a Brent fan. | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 1945 Registered: 10-2002 |
2 weeks since the shipped email and I'm still waiting. Guess it must be coming by camel ;-) Graeme | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 3314 Registered: 7-2004 |
Mine came yesterday. I got to listen to Egypt, Disc 1, before my kid hijacked me to play his new Wii game. Sounded o.k., but not the most inspiring show I've heard. Really looking forward to the Winterland disc (NOT Warfield) from the next month, as I attended these shows and my memory is that they were mucho excellent. I also added the 3 disc Fillmore 1969 set. I dropped the ball when the 10 disc set came out, and I can't rationalize spending $550+ for one on ebay. The discs are coming to the office with me today. I really like the shirt. I can't read Arabic, just looks like a cool design to me. Also, it's a high quality Liquid Blue shirt - no cheapos! Bill, tgo | ||
| glocke
Senior Member Username: glocke Post Number: 470 Registered: 9-2002 |
"I also added the 3 disc Fillmore 1969 set. I dropped the ball when the 10 disc set came out, and I can't rationalize spending $550+ for one on ebay. The discs are coming to the office with me today" You know, I just dont understand why they dont reprint these... | ||
| glocke
Senior Member Username: glocke Post Number: 471 Registered: 9-2002 |
"I also added the 3 disc Fillmore 1969 set. I dropped the ball when the 10 disc set came out, and I can't rationalize spending $550+ for one on ebay. The discs are coming to the office with me today" You know, I just dont understand why they dont reprint these... | ||
| kmh364
Senior Member Username: kmh364 Post Number: 2253 Registered: 9-2003 |
Sorry, I had Warfield on my mind. I frequent ethnic Arabic communities for the culinary delights they contain, and I have friends and co-workers alike that happen to be Arabs. If I'm gonna wear something on me that contains a foreign language, I try to make sure it says what it's supposed to and not something derogatory. On top of that, GD Store ain't giving anything away, so they should at least make sure the quality is commensurate with the price. It's hard enough to try not to appear illiterate in English, much less doing the same in Arabic, LOL! I bought the Fillmore '69 10-disc for the $100 or so it cost back then, which I thought was high, LOL! FWIW, I much prefer the Dead's '77 run to the '78 vintage myself. Cheers, Kevin | ||
| hieronymous
Senior Member Username: hieronymous Post Number: 443 Registered: 1-2005 |
I'm used to Japanese being misspelled all the time. You know the episode of the Simpsons with the soap company and mascot that looks like Homer? It's supposed to say "Pawa Kurinu" ("Power Clean") but instead it reads "Hawa Kurinu" - they left off two little marks so it doesn't mean anything. Or the Kanye West song that he did with Daft Punk - in the video Japanese is always appearing and the word "ganbare" which loosely means "break a leg" (as in "good luck") is misspelled by one character so it reads "gasobare" which again doesn't mean anything. But my wife and I say it all the time to mock Kanye West, so maybe you have a point. The best is when people that don't know Chinese or Japanese get tattoos in Chinese characters. Some guy sued a tattoo place in San Francisco and won because they told him they were going to write one thing but they wrote something totally random, like "Shaolin 3rd level 4th grade". These recent disks (Egypt 78 and the Winterland set) are a bit of a disappointment, though my expectations weren't too high too begin with. They strike me as more like historical documents rather than great shows. After listening to them in the car, I put in a couple of disks from the Winterland 1973 box set and was blown away all over again! Maybe the best part is that Bobby doesn't play any slide on the earlier stuff... | ||
| kmh364
Senior Member Username: kmh364 Post Number: 2256 Registered: 9-2003 |
I agree...Bob got carried away with the slide stuff now and again. Try those "View From The Vault" soundtracks. They're end-of-era performances where Jerry sounds real tired and Bob doesn't quit with the slide! LOL! Englishtown, NJ '77 is still near-peak for the Keith and Donna post-Pig era for me. | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 1959 Registered: 10-2002 |
3 weeks and nothing;-( I've mailed dead net to see what's going on. Graeme | ||
| phylo
Member Username: phylo Post Number: 91 Registered: 10-2005 |
Rhapsody has 'em now. Along with a bunch of other stuff that they didn't previously. The dead (Jerry) were always critical of this performance. And in some parts I certainly see why, but alot of it sounds like the kids having a great time, if not the best performance of all time. I will be going back to the Shakedown; as well as the other 'new' stuff for 78. | ||
| elwoodblue
Senior Member Username: elwoodblue Post Number: 596 Registered: 6-2002 |
Thanks for the tip phylo, I've been having trouble getting deadnet to respond to my correspondence...dunno what's up. | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 1990 Registered: 10-2002 |
mine eventually arrived last week. I quite enjoyed the performance although Donna Jean's singing leaves a little to to be desired ;-) Graeme |
